Fbi Crime Report Says Violent Crime Decreased By 4.5% In 2024

Statistics released by nan FBI connected Tuesday show that convulsive crime decreased wide successful nan U.S. by 4.5% successful 2024.

The FBI’s yearly crime study is made up of information from complete 16,000 agencies astir nan country, covering 95% of nan U.S. population. Around 2% much agencies submitted crime information compared to nan twelvemonth prior. Notably, each metropolis agency covering a organization of 1 cardinal aliases much submitted a afloat 12 months of information for nan 2024 report.

According to nan FBI, execution and nonnegligent manslaughter decreased an estimated 14.9%; robbery decreased an estimated 8.9%; rape decreased an estimated 5.2%; and aggravated battle decreased an estimated 3.0%.

Property crime besides decreased an estimated 8.1% from 2023 to 2024, and dislike crimes decreased an estimated 1.5% from 2023 to 2024, nan study showed.

Estimates based connected reported crime person decreased, but nan information still shows that convulsive crime occurred an mean of each 25.9 seconds, and spot crime occurred each 5.3 seconds, according to FBI Assistant Director Timothy Ferguson, who said during a media briefing telephone announcing nan report.

The newly-released statistic erstwhile again contradict President Donald Trump's claims that crime successful nan U.S. is retired of control.

"You can’t locomotion crossed nan thoroughfare to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped," Trump said past twelvemonth during a run arena northbound of Detroit.

While location has been an wide alteration successful crime, location has been an summation successful officers killed successful nan statement of duty.

In 2024, 64 officers were feloniously killed successful nan statement of duty. A full of 61 offenders were reported successful relationship pinch these felonious killings. Firearms were progressive successful 46 of nan 64 felonious deaths.

During nan aforesaid year, 43 officers were accidentally killed while connected duty, astir of whom died owed to centrifugal vehicle-related injuries.

According to nan FBI, reported assaults connected officers reached a 10-year high, pinch complete 85,700 assaults recorded successful 2024.

“Between 2021 and 2024, we had 258 rule enforcement officers feloniously killed successful nan statement of duty,” which included 64 officers successful 2024, according to an FBI charismatic who besides said connected nan telephone announcing nan report.

When asked why location has been an uptick successful reported serviceman assaults, an FBI charismatic said accrued reporting could person thing to do pinch it.

"But I do deliberation we work together pinch that premise, that we’re seeing an summation successful rule enforcement officers assaulted successful nan statement of duty," nan charismatic said. "And while I don’t person an reply for you today, what I tin perpetrate to you present is that we are conducting a study correct now pinch our squad to talk to victims and offenders to effort to make a determination connected why these are occurring."